Hello...I am a newbie here on these boards, and an Apple Mac newbie. After years of having an old Dell, I finally took the plunge and bought an iMac.

Anyway, I friend of mine recommended that I use PLAY software to play my many FLAC files. I have been using PLAY on my new iMac very successfully for about a week now, and I really dig it. I was just curious, does PLAY play SHN files? I have many concerts in SHN format; I would like to use PLAY for both my FLAC and SHN files, but currently PLAY is only playing back the FLAC files. I apologize if this question sounds ignorant...but quite honestly, I just don't know. Do I need yet a third audio software player on my new machine (in addition to iTunes and PLAY) to play back the SHN files?

Thanks for the quick reply. Can anyone suggest a good software program which would be able to playback Shorten (SHN) files? My first preference would be to be able to play SHN files in PLAY or even iTunes. I am open to suggestions. Thanks again!!

the 0.07 builds of Cog can play shn files perfectly (no choppiness during playback and can seek on shorten files when seek tables are present), Cog also supports a wide assortment of other formats as well.

The problem with SHN is that the software was never written as a library, but as a standalone program. FLAC came after Shorten, and was designed more intelligently. Because FLAC has a library, it is much easier to incorporate FLAC playback (and recording) into an application. If Shorten had a similar library, then you'd see much better support for it.

Personally, I'd recommend converting all of your SHN files to FLAC. But you can always use Cog.